A protest that planned to show Shaun Derry a red card in the seventh minute of Cambridge United's 2-1 loss to Newport County fell flat.

The card - which stated four reasons why the head coach should go - was held up in the seventh minute as a representation of their heavy defeat to Luton Town and the number of away games they have went without scoring.

Although a splattering could be seen, they were largely met with supportive chants from The Abbey stadium and derision on social media.

Although boos could be heard at half time and at full time.

The four points on the card read:

1. Suffered our worst ever start to a League season in over 100 years.

2. Endured our heaviest ever defeat at Luton Town this season (7-0)

3. Witnessed dull, lifeless defensive football which has seen our attendances plummet - we just want to be entertained

4. Failed to sore any away goals in over three months (7 games, 2100 miles!) including defeat at Port Vale last Saturday to the side with the worst home record in the league.

And Derry said that he was only told about the protest after the game.

"I think there's been misguided information, if I'm honest," the U's head coach said. "I'm not going to go into the finer details of things as that's not for me to say.

"But when I see the red note - it's the second one I've seen now, I was only made aware of it after the game actually - and I think that's modern day football and I have to take myself out of the equation because, ultimately, it's me one week and it's going to be somebody else the next.

"That's the life and story of a modern day football manager. You're going to get criticised when things go wrong and you're going to get praised when things go right. I accept the game and I think that's my message to everybody.

"I've been here a long time and I've seen some fantastic highs and I've seen some pretty poor lows. At this moment in time it's a pretty tough time but I don't see that as a low point as an afternoon because as I say, as a manager, I can only really talk about the performance."